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 Ten stock photography cliches examined. [via waxy] Simple sounding company names tend to do better in the stock market. [via kottke] The JPEG patent has been invalidated, inching the format ever closer to being open. Don't forget, The Smithsonian sold our national archives to CBS for $6 million a couple months ago. The new Moleskine City Notebook. New York, Boston, Miami, and SF coming soon. London and Berlin, among others, are available now. The New Yorker on Megnut and Kottke, pt. 2. Who are the top U.S. air polluters? Would it surprise you that Kodak takes spot #5? This R/C airplane demo is just... holy shit. [via kottke]  Janet Jackson vs. Royal Sapien - Miss U Much, available exclusively at Release Records. Kids in the UK have turned a "teen repellant" sound into a ringtone that alerts them to messages and phone calls. Apparently grown-ups can't hear it. I can... I like the campyness of the design, but it shouldn't interrupt the music. C'mon! The Politics section on Last.fm groups is equally useful and hilarious. If you don't like your group leader, you can revolt! Animal overpasses allow critters to hang out across roadways.  The Olaris Records Blog is launching today to keep everyone updated about releases, mixes, tracklistings, free downloads, and everything else. It just makes sense.  Creepy, beautiful, and mammoth: Disgraceland, PRC. (Those trees are cement.) [via BB] A giant cache of veterans data was stolen... about 2 weeks ago. They're letting the veterans know now. The information includes birthdays and social security numbers. If you want to pick up the Stanton Warriors' new album online digitally, 7 Digital is the only place I've found it, but it's in WMA format. Use dBpowerAMP to convert to mp3s. IKEA's new kitchen ad is getting buzz everywhere on the web. Fortunately, it deserves it. The Newseum received $52 million in gifts from eight news organizations. Morning subway demographics. (via kottke) HUMANS! Not just a species, but a parasite, too. Wal-Mart "protesters" were handing out pro-Wal-Mart literature at Grand Central. How could that be good PR? Sales of vinyl in the U.K. rose 600% in 2005. Up to 70% of new releases are purchased on vinyl at Virgin Megastores, U.K. Holy shit!  Is it possible Karen Walker on Will & Grace was secretly a Royal Sapien fan? Someone on the crew? Maybe they just shop at the same photo sites.  The Tale of How is a masterpiece. It's like the most beautiful picture book come to life with music and animation and poetry. (via A Blog for Teh Ages) The recording industry is suing XM over their Inno player that lets subscribers record shows for personal use. The shows cannot ever be copied nor listened to without an XM subscription. I've become convinced that soon enough, the major labels are going to put themselves out of business. Is $600 really that expensive for the PS3? I'm sure as hell not going to buy one, but according to what it's packing and the history of console prices, it seems fair. On a separate note, with all the speculation surrounding the price of the Nintendo Wii, has anyone else noticed that every Nintendo console has debuted at $200? "Plan" by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga is overhead views of apartments. Wild. (via kottke) Worried about your future should you be attached to machines? The Do not Resuscitate tattoo is a great solution. Wired News has published some of the NSI wiretapping documents that AT&T wanted stricken from the public record. AT&T lost that battle.  Tyger is a beautiful and fanciful animation based on William Blake's "The Tyger." (via An Epic Blog for Teh Ages) Dance Dance Revolution is going to be a Saturday morning TV show on CBS. It's just for kids, sit back down. Central Park is getting wifi by July (allegedly)! NYC is rush initiating a program for free wifi at parks around the city where, if one looks around, a lot of people hang out. This will make us seem not quite so technologically inferior to San Francisco and, er, Phildelphia. Blue Industries is a great show on Proton OnDemand that, along with Decibels, is charting Royal Sapien. Thanks, guys! Graphic designers compete on The Apprentice. Find out how far a good machine goes toward good design and you'll want a new computer. And never, ever touch my screen if you want to keep your hand. (via kottke) Sharing wifi in a home can be a hassle if it's protected, so try getting an old painting and stencil your WEP key on it. Genius! People in China are getting together in teams to go to stores and bargain for discounts. For as long as it takes to get the items, I don't know that it's worth the time or the hassle, but it's a very interesting idea. Kevin Smith on strip clubs. Stream all the tracks of Royal Sapien's new album, Strip Poker Slot Machine, free on Last.fm!  Radio Lab is one of the finest radio shows I've ever heard. Each episode explores one Big Idea through snippets, research, anecdotes, science, humor, and lots of beautiful sound design. Listen online or get the podcast from WNYC.  Ask a Ninja Special Delivery: Net Neutrality. Cool video from the show Brainiac on G4 of rubidium and cesium being mixed with water in a bathtub. We always wanted to do something like this in our high school swimming pool as a joke, but figured that would probably be considered terrorism (even back then!), so it's wonderful to finally see this.  BBC Radio 1's One Big Weekend will not only be in real life, but also in Second Life. All the virtual festivalgoers get nifty Radio 1 radios to listen to and take away in the game and could appear on screens at the actual festival. "The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers security clearance." But I'm sure it's fine. The eggs in the Google cafeteria are now all from free-range chickens. "That's no small matter; the company serves about 300,000 eggs a year to about 6,000 employees a year..." Nintendo's new Wii controller/remotes will remember your settings like the driver's seat in an Acura. "Nintendo's hopes are that everyone in the family will own their own Wii remote, each with a distinct look, and that people can just hop into a game with the controller—and the Wii would customize the look or settings of a game based on which controller turned it on the console." Which countries search for sex the most? [via kottke] On-the-edges-of-legal Allofmp3.com is the second most popular music download site in the UK. Easily the coolest dorm room ever. Love those MIT kids. [via digg] Google Notebook looks very handy, especially if it syncs with Gmail and Google Calendar. Bush is asking television networks for 20 minutes of airtime for a speech on immigration. What's the problem? It's at 8pm on a Monday during May sweeps. Some may not carry it. Hugg is like Digg for eco-friendly stories from Treehugger. Hey, Cincinnati will be using B50 biodiesel in their buses. Nice!  ASCII-O-Matic will convert an image of your choice into text. The iPod audio navigation patent, for those who use their iPods in the car. IndieKarma is a new micropayments system, but I'm not sure whether it will catch on. It seems like there's too much for the user to do to spend money. Chunk has some excellent Donkey Kong polo shirts. My birthday is June 17. Bush said his best moment as President was catching a big fish at home. At least he's finally telling the truth. CountryX is a new country being founded by Matthew Herbert and some others. Apply for citizenship on the site. We know MySpace was founded by spammers, so would it surprise us to find out the site is just an information-gathering blob with some social side-effects? Maybe that's why the end user experience is so terrible. [via TWiT] Accidental Records lets you listen to all their releases in full on the website. Check out the new Matthew Herbert album as well as Roisin Murphy's new solo project.  The new Eboy NYC poster is beautiful. They have a full-res link on their blog. Also, here's Communication City also by Eboy for Fortune Magazine. Going on at night in NYC this weekend: James Holden at Cielo on Friday, Yousef and Paolo Mojo at Avalon on Saturday, Danny Krivit with Roisin Murphy at Deep on Sunday. Create your face or thousands of others with Flash Ultimate Face. The Met has a cool timeline of art history with all kinds of ways to index and search. Adagio Teas has a delicious-looking Ctrl-Alt-Chicken sampler pack. Rumsfeld gets caught out there on his WMD statements. In public on CNN. Quicktime from Think Progress. Dontclick.it is a clickless web interface. Do you like it? I like the off/on assurance of the click interaction but find this very cool. I'm not careful enough with my cursor most of the time for this to be practical, however.  The spinart revolution will not be televised. Play String Spin at zefrank. This ACLU ad reminding us of our privacy concerns is excellent. I fell asleep to the music of Spheric Lounge last night. They provide beautiful and calm ambient tunes to soundtrack your completely chill mood (or attempt at it). BoingBoing has a long post with many reader comments about why the Colbert speech was taken down from YouTube. The world Seismic Monitor. The Official God FAQ. Everything you need to know about God. Apparently the Coriolis Effect, in relation to water spinning down drains, is nonsense.  I love robots. I love computers. I love funny. I am Bender, insert girder. Alcohol-powered muscles that are 100 times stronger than people flesh. Vincente Fox pussied out on the drug bill that would have legalized personal amounts for almost everything. You could have changed the world, you dumb bastard. If you don't dread something, it won't be as bad. Windows Vista has been delayed yet again, now due out Spring of 2007. But really, who cares? It's been stripped of most of its coolness, and... well, XP still works pretty well for me, as far as Windows goes. There. I said it. Anyway, John Dvorak outlines the ways in which Microsoft is losing ground as a tech leader. "It appears as if [Vista] is going to be a great disappointment. This should have been the company's number one priority." New "forever" stamps from the USPS under discussion. You could use them "forever", regardless of postal price increases. But they'd be the same price as regular first-class stamps... so... why buy the regular ones? Thanks to everyone who voted on my Threadless submission. Despite its very low average score (1.87), a lot of people left some great comments that I appreciate, so thanks for giving it your attention.  The Philips Bodygroom has a very saucy campaign launching that encourages guys to manscape. [via Preston] San Francisco became gay because of the U.S. military. [via BB] Amazing and beautiful homemade USB disco dance floor. [via digg] Incandescent vs. CFL vs. LED light bulbs, including a downloadable Excel spreadsheet to compare what you have at home. [via digg]  I Dream of Cake. And soon, you will too. [via waxy] David Blaine is being retarded in a giant aquarium at Lincoln Center. The aquarium is actually pretty cool. Why you should care about net neutrality, from Slate. Also, "For those who wish to make transparently stupid arguments against net neutrality, and for those newspapers who for some bizarre reason wish to publish them, I say this: We are not that fucking stupid." -Atrios Tom Cruise has a hard time putting his thoughts together. It's a shame he wrote a piece for Time magazine. I can't imagine how much this was edited. YouTube is really, really taking off. "Everyday, 6 million users view and comment on 35,000 homemade videos on YouTube.com. Fueled only by word-of-mouth, the do-it-yourself video sharing site has surpassed video efforts by Google, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo..." Improv Everywhere gathered their blue shirts and khaki pants and invaded Best Buy. Brokerate helps NYC apartment hunters find a reasonably painless broker. [via Gawker] Bush has decided to modify over 700 laws for himself. Will Apple's new ad campaign taunt virus-writers? Declaring your OS is invincible seems like a poor decision, especially on international television. Yahoo! Tech is like a social web 2.0-y C|Net. Here's how to get started exploring. I found it useful.  The media is still ignoring Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Daily Kos has a full transcript of the whole thing. Thank Stephen Colbert for his balls! Hit ThankYouStephenColbert.org and leave a quick note. Stephen Colbert 60 Minutes segment from April 30th. Jon Stewart also loves Stephen Colbert, natch. "'We've never been prouder of him, but HOLY ----,' Stewart added." Atrios has a bit from Salon: "What Colbert did was expose the whole official, patriotic, right-wing, press-bashing discourse as a sham, as more 'truthiness' than truth." [via C&L]  onedotzero presents a series of beautiful selections on Film Network on the BBC. There are reasons to go to the cinema. "The Drafthouse, first of all, bans children except for special events. Each seat comes with a table area where you have a full restaraunt selection (including beer & wine) and you can order before or during the movie using order cards. The cost is roughly the same as you'd get at a diner, and you can get a burger and fries with drink for the same price you'd pay for a popcorn, twizzler & drink at othe theatres." Thieves stole a trailer full of Red Bull, about $100,000 worth. "A trailer containing $100,000 worth of Kraft sauces also was stolen in Dyersburg on Monday, authorities said. The trailer was recovered by police in Ohio Monday night, but all the sauce was gone." Jon Katz has a really smart cow and writes exceptionally about his animals, like his awesome barn cat. Bloomberg and Reuters had competing afterparties post-White House Correspondents Dinner. The Bloomberg party's lucite invitation was beautiful. The South Carolina congressman who wants to outlaw sex toys also wants to deport drug users. "Notwithstanding another provision of law, the department may enter into agreements with foreign countries for the confinement of inmates convicted of drug related offenses or offenses related to the sexual abuse of children." Apple patented a video screen-as-camera system. Visual Scratch. [via waxy] For people who don't live on the Internet, using BitTorrent appears to be extraordinarily hard. I realized this today when I was trying to explain how to download the Stephen Colbert speech to my dad. The Puzzle Loft is an excellent use of New York City apartment space, especially if it's overlooking Union Square. Though, one would have to put most of one's possessions in storage, or spend another hundred grand at the Container Store to build custom shelving. Hundreds of thousands of legal and illegal immigrants walked off the job today across the U.S. |
   
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